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Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:16 PM

Silverlight Insight event for UK Academics

As Paolo blogged we (the Microsoft Academic Team in the UK) are arranging an event targeted to Academics in Universities and Design Schools in the UK. Silverlight Insight is a one-day event designed to give attendees a solid understanding of the Silverlight
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Friday, August 15, 2008 9:29 AM

Microsoft Research Asia - 10th Anniversary Innovation Forum

  On August 12, Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft ® , joined visionary technologists from Microsoft Research (MSR) Asia, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and the University of Hong Kong, to
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008 9:03 AM

News from the Faculty Summit

Lee Dirks, the Director for Education and Scholarly Research , announced five new ‘lifecycle’ tools for academics and researchers. The tools are as follows: Research Information Centre Creative Commons (an add-in to Microsoft Office) Article Authoring
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Friday, June 27, 2008 9:26 AM

Invitation to Convergence 2008 Copenhagen - Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance MDAA:00071306

Hi, I thought you'd like to receive your invitation to an interesting event in Denmark. Microsoft Dynamics Academic Alliance invites you to attend: Microsoft Academic Preconference and Convergence 2008 Copenhagen, Denmark from 17 to 20 November, 2008.
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Thursday, February 07, 2008 3:46 PM

Why Rare recruits games graduates

The academic team has enjoyed working with Rare over the past 18 months and it seems they have enjoyed it too, so much so that Nick Burton has put pen to paper (OK, type to screen) to bring our attention to some great facts. You might be surprised to
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 12:56 PM

Heroes Happen Here

Introducing tne new HHH ( Heroes Happen Here ) Comic Series. This is a new daily web comic by Microsoft and Seagate that adapts tech stories from actual IT Professionals and Developers - a web comic that reflects the real lives of IT Hero's such as you.
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 4:53 PM

Films for Learning

One of the exciting new projects being demonstrated at the BETT show this year is the Films for Learning Project. I know that many of you work with your feeder schools to establish links, provide extra curricular activities and to foster enthusiasm for
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:13 PM

What your colleagues have downloaded from the Academic Resource Centre this month

I have blogged before about the wealth of resources available on the Academic Resource Centre and have posted links about the most popular global downloads . I now have a tool that lets me see what the popular downloads are in the UK so this is what your
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Monday, November 19, 2007 7:33 PM

What's new with XNA v2.0?

Ed Dunhill, Academic Developer Evangelist, answers just this question in his blog and links you to the XNA team blog too. There is still massive interest in XNA v1 and so we have produced some more of the popular 'Getting started with XNA' DVDs. If you
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Friday, November 16, 2007 3:30 PM

Life changing prizes to be won in the Imagine Cup

Technorati Tags: Imagine Cup , Students The Imagine cup registrations are flooding in and the competition is definitely hotting up. If you need any more compelling reasons to prompt your students into registering (apart from the chance to win an Xbox
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 6:01 PM

The Rare 2008 lecture series

We are pleased to announce the 2008 lecture series offered by our colleagues at Rare. These free talks can be delivered to degree students in the UK. If you would like to book one then please let me know. We will try to satisfy all requests but recommend
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Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:02 PM

The Imagine Cup 2008

Those of you who have already hosted the Inspiration Tour will know that the Imagine Cup is a really exciting opportunity for students this year and includes some great new categories. In the UK we are even adding extra value. The key points are: 1. There
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:51 PM

Whatever happened to Tech Talks?

This is a question I have been asked a lot of late and the answer is that they are still available upon request. At Gamecity tomorrow we will be announcing a list of talks focused on games development, these will be presented by a range of speakers from
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Wednesday, October 24, 2007 4:21 PM

New Silverlight Teaching Program Launching

As avid readers of our Academic blog I thought I’d give you a heads up about our latest teaching program which is due to launch soon. Having already covered XNA and Embedded technologies I’m pleased to announce that our third program for the year will
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Friday, October 19, 2007 2:51 PM

RFP Announcement on "Beyond Search - Semantic Computing and Internet Economics"

Microsoft Research is pleased to announce a new worldwide Request for Proposals (RFP): Beyond Search – Semantic Computing and Internet Economics . For full details, guidelines, and instructions, please visit http://research.microsoft.com/ur/us/fundingopps/RFPs/BeyondSearch_RFP.aspx
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